| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $600: (Justin Long presents the clue.) "Welcome to Dead House" from 1992 was the first of the books in the "Goosebumps" series by this author that by now has sold a spooky number of copies (R.L.) Stine |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | 2001 $2000: This Trinidad-born author of "A House for Mr. Biswas" won the Nobel Prize for Literature V.S. Naipaul |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $1600: A letter this author began writing to her grandfather evolved into her first novel "The House of the Spirits" Allende |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $1000: "On the Banks of Plum Creek" is the fourth book in this series about a pioneering family The Little House (on the Prairie series) books |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $1000: Meaning not proceeding from event A to event B to event C, this "non" word applies to "Tristram Shandy" & "House of Leaves" nonlinear |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $1600: Edgar Allan Poe fed a 19th century Gothic revival with stories like this supernatural tale about Roderick & his doomed family The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | "A" IN LITERATURE $600: Chapter 1 of this Tolstoy novel tells us, "Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house" Anna Karenina |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | CALL ME SHIRLEY $2000: Her "The Haunting of Hill House" is considered a treasure of Gothic horror literature Shirley Jackson |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Shortly after "The House of the Seven Gables", he wrote a book of classical myths, "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys" Hawthorne |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: "A sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit" on glimpsing the title home in this Poe tale The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #3929, aired 2001-10-04 | LITERATURE $400: This dilapidated Hawthorne mansion is home to Pyncheon relatives Hepzibah, Phoebe & Clifford & a lodger House of the Seven Gables |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | A "HOUSE" OF LITERATURE $200: Part of this nursery rhyme reads, "This is the dog, that worried the cat, that killed the rat..." "The House that Jack Built" |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | A "HOUSE" OF LITERATURE $400: The legend of a family curse permeates this Hawthorne work published in 1851 The House of the Seven Gables |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | A "HOUSE" OF LITERATURE $600: Tigger makes his first appearance in this sequel to "Winnie-the-Pooh" The House at Pooh Corner |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | A "HOUSE" OF LITERATURE $800: Considered by some to be Dickens' best, this novel tells the story of a family waiting in vain to inherit a fortune Bleak House |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | A "HOUSE" OF LITERATURE $1000: First produced in 1920, this Shaw comedy takes place in the unconventional home of elderly Capt. Shotover Heartbreak House |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | LITERATURE $500: This title home of a Hawthorne tale has "an elm-tree of wide circumference, rooted before the door" "The House of the Seven Gables" |
| #3346, aired 1999-03-08 | LITTLE HOUSE $100: Noted residents of this type of little house include a young Abraham Lincoln & Tom, a slave in literature Log cabin |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Aphrodite: A Memoir Of The Senses" is a 1998 novel from this "House Of The Spirits" author Isabel Allende |
| #3224, aired 1998-09-17 | LITERATURE $400: This children's story describes Toad Hall as "a dignified old house of mellowed red brick" The Wind in the Willows |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | LITERATURE $600: This character sends Alice to his house for a fresh pair of gloves & a new fan White Rabbit |
| #2845, aired 1997-01-03 | LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): A curse placed on one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's ancestors inspired this 1851 novel The House of the Seven Gables |
| #2370, aired 1994-12-16 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: 3 of the 10 chapters in his "The House at Pooh Corner" concern Tigger who's introduced in the book (A.A.) Milne |
| #2339, aired 1994-11-03 | LITERATURE $400: Part of this Robert Louis Stevenson tale takes place in a sinister house called the "Laboratory" Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
| #2328, aired 1994-10-19 | LITERATURE $600: 2 twins are the only survivors of the family that owns a decayed mansion in this Poe story "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The narrator of a Poe story describes this title structure as a "mansion of gloom" the House of Usher |
| #1847, aired 1992-09-22 | LITERATURE $200: In 1991, this former first daughter published her 3rd novel, "A House of Secrets" Patti Davis |
| #1333, aired 1990-05-23 | LITERATURE $200: Ole E. Rolvaag wrote a "Saga Of" it & Laura Ingalls Wilder set a "Little House" on it The Prairie |
| #1078, aired 1989-04-19 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1000: This novelist's "The House of the Dead" was a fictional account of his 4 years in a Siberian prison Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| #946, aired 1988-10-17 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: Dostoyevsky's "The House of the Dead" tells of his 4 years spent in a penal colony here Siberia |
| #746, aired 1987-11-30 | "B" IN LITERATURE $1000: A ragman dies of spontaneous combustion in the Dickens novel named for this domicile Bleak House |
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